Hms Caroline – Belfast

The last survivor of the Battle of Jutland. The Light Cruiser “HMS Caroline” in Belfast Harbour. Built in 1913, she is still a commissioned vessel in the Royal Navy.

I had no idea that there were any WW1 ships left in the UK. I was at a meeting in the Innovation Centre built next to this dock, saw it when the cab dropped me off and luckily had my camera with me. At first I thought she was a V&W Class destroyer (1920’s) but then realised she was bigger and older.

This photo has just been used in the “Britain at War” Magazine on an article on the Battle of Jutland.

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My father JJ Linskey served as a chief petty officer on the kilmurry which was the training ship attached to the Caroline from the 1950s to the early 1970s.
We have happy memories of Christmas parties my eldest sister had her 21st birthday party on the ship.
I played on the ship when we would go to collect my father as he would often be away training for weeks or weekends.

Calum Davidson

Calum Davidson was a a well-known regional planner and photographer. He described himself as a photographer with a day job, living in a very photogenic part of the globe, and who got to travel a bit to other almost as photogenic bits of the planet.